LINGUIST List 7.1549

Sat Nov 2 1996

FYI: Software for historical phonology, Chinese Web Sites

Editor for this issue: Ljuba Veselinova <lveselinemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. Lee Hartman, Phono (software for historical phonology)
2. "Lizhong Zhang", FYI: Internet Based Chinese Teaching and Learning
3. "Tao, Hongyin", Chinese Linguistics Home Page Updates

 I have just released a new version of Phono, a DOS-based
program for constructing models of regular historical sound change.
It can be downloaded from the following site:

 http://www.siu.edu/~nmc/phono.html

 Phono is accompanied by a model for Spanish, but it can be
used to model sound change for any language, given a set of rules and
a chronological order in which to apply them.

 This is Version 3.3. Those who are familiar with the previous
version will find the following innovations:

 1) Errors in the "Rule Trace" procedure are now corrected.
 2) "Word Trace" is replaced by a batch mode that records
derivations in a file.
 3) There is now a "prosifier", which can take a line of the
special notation for rules and translate it to a form of English. (If
only it could translate in the reverse direction!)

 I urge researchers in historical phonology to try it out and
let me know the results.


Lee Hartman
Dept. of Foreign Languages
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4521
U.S.A.

A new program of Internet Based Chinese Teaching and Learning has been
just launched at Latrobe University, Bendigo, Australia. This program
is designed to offer a range of Chinese language subjects from
elementary to advanced levels mainly via the Internet. Further
information can be found at:

http://chinese.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/

or: http://149.144.30.47/

If you have any problems of locating the Website, please email to:

L.Zhangbendigo.latrobe.edu.au

Dear Netter:

The unofficial Chinese linguistics home page on the WWW can now be
found at either of the three sites (please note the new directory name
at our Singapore site):


In USA: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~whu/China/linguist.html
 http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/China/linguist.html

In Singapore: http://137.132.195.189/China/html/linguist.htm


We hope this will serve you better and apologise to those of you who were
unable to access the sites during our restructuring.

Co-Maintainers: Wenze Hu <whufas.harvard.edu>
 Hongyin Tao <chstaohynus.sg>